Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,801 5,474 7,036
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.67% 22.82% 19.15%
As % of the General category 34.34% 35.58% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,643 4,906
10th Percentile £356 £355 £360
25th Percentile £447 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.08% -1.13%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £577
% change year-on-year - -4.60% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 98 238
10th Percentile £14.82 £18.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.33 £14.63
Median hourly rate £26.50 £39.06 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.15% +44.65% +5.02%
75th Percentile £55.05 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £40.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year -29.07% +49.07% +0.58%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,717 15,386 21,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.37% 64.14% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,897 9,907 13,546
10th Percentile £312 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £740 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,567 708 1,811
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £28.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% -2.88%
75th Percentile £63.19 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.54 £27.97 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.19% -7.26% -6.91%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,713 £575 -6.12% 3,453
North of England +3 1,210 £492 +5.13% 883
South East -1 645 £500 -4.31% 934
North West +5 638 £465 +3.33% 517
Midlands 0 594 £495 +4.21% 497
Yorkshire +2 530 £519 +7.56% 290
West Midlands 0 409 £500 -0.40% 309
South West -2 366 £525 - 370
East of England +2 193 £520 -9.57% 244
East Midlands 0 180 £468 +6.36% 187
North East -16 43 £488 +10.80% 82
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 280 (3.59%) Confluence
2 195 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.56%) Apache
7 25 (0.32%) SAS
8 24 (0.31%) CMS
9 18 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 13 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 13 (0.17%) Appian
12 12 (0.15%) Camunda
12 12 (0.15%) IIS
13 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.12%) Ethereum
15 8 (0.10%) HCL Notes
15 8 (0.10%) Mendix
16 7 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 6 (0.077%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 439 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 150 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 147 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (1.38%) MS Visio
6 47 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.064%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 3 (0.038%) Notion
11 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.026%) InVision
11 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.013%) UXPin
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 274 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 105 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 92 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 78 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 77 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 65 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
7 46 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
8 42 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
9 38 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
10 37 (0.47%) SAP FI
11 35 (0.45%) Aladdin
12 31 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
12 31 (0.40%) SAP CO
13 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 24 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
16 22 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
16 22 (0.28%) Workday HCM
17 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 20 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (15.95%) Azure
2 896 (11.49%) AWS
3 542 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 382 (4.90%) GCP
5 271 (3.47%) SaaS
6 265 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 253 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
8 207 (2.65%) GitHub
9 194 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 151 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 144 (1.85%) Entra ID
12 127 (1.63%) Serverless
13 100 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 99 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 96 (1.23%) OCI
16 90 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 83 (1.06%) OpenShift
18 80 (1.03%) dbt
19 76 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
20 74 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 143 (1.83%) Firewall
2 116 (1.49%) Network Security
3 67 (0.86%) DNS
4 65 (0.83%) VPN
5 55 (0.71%) WAN
6 54 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 37 (0.47%) BGP
8 31 (0.40%) LAN
9 29 (0.37%) HTTP
10 28 (0.36%) DHCP
11 26 (0.33%) OSPF
11 26 (0.33%) SSL
12 24 (0.31%) MPLS
12 24 (0.31%) Multicast
13 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.27%) VSAN
14 19 (0.24%) VLAN
15 15 (0.19%) Internet
16 14 (0.18%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (5.91%) Power BI
2 216 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 207 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 147 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.81%) Metadata
6 132 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 123 (1.58%) Tableau
8 111 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 70 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
11 66 (0.85%) Big Data
12 63 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.53%) Power Query
16 41 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 590 (7.56%) JIRA
2 185 (2.37%) Git
3 139 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.12%) GitLab
5 47 (0.60%) JUnit
6 44 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 35 (0.45%) Selenium
8 28 (0.36%) Postman
9 27 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (0.31%) MLflow
10 24 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.22%) ERwin
13 17 (0.22%) Maven
13 17 (0.22%) Zephyr
14 15 (0.19%) Hudson
14 15 (0.19%) TeamCity
15 14 (0.18%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,275 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 1,456 (18.66%) Banking
3 1,032 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 441 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 321 (4.11%) Legal
6 316 (4.05%) Financial Institution
7 292 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 282 (3.61%) Front Office
9 256 (3.28%) Retail
10 243 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 197 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 184 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 139 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 135 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 132 (1.69%) Marketing
16 127 (1.63%) Local Government
17 126 (1.62%) Law
18 123 (1.58%) General Ledger
19 113 (1.45%) Telecoms
20 111 (1.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,165 (14.93%) Analyst
2 875 (11.22%) Senior
3 814 (10.43%) Lead
4 789 (10.11%) Developer
5 728 (9.33%) Architect
6 613 (7.86%) Project Manager
7 605 (7.76%) Business Analyst
8 506 (6.49%) Consultant
9 302 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 270 (3.46%) Data Engineer
11 206 (2.64%) Senior Manager
12 191 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
13 166 (2.13%) Data Analyst
14 160 (2.05%) Accountant
15 157 (2.01%) Finance Manager
16 155 (1.99%) Programme Manager
17 149 (1.91%) Software Engineer
18 146 (1.87%) Senior Developer
19 143 (1.83%) Java Developer
20 139 (1.78%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (2.97%) .NET
2 229 (2.94%) REST
3 222 (2.85%) Kafka
4 210 (2.69%) React
5 169 (2.17%) Middleware
6 164 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 135 (1.73%) Spring
8 133 (1.70%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.53%) RESTful
10 97 (1.24%) Node.js
11 96 (1.23%) PySpark
12 88 (1.13%) AngularJS
13 86 (1.10%) Redux
14 70 (0.90%) JSON
14 70 (0.90%) OAuth
15 68 (0.87%) XML
16 61 (0.78%) CSS
17 59 (0.76%) Pandas
18 58 (0.74%) HTML
19 55 (0.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 352 (4.51%) Onboarding
2 336 (4.31%) Product Ownership
3 309 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 216 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 189 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 163 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 148 (1.90%) Derivative
8 142 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 140 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 140 (1.79%) Fixed Income
10 136 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 127 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 109 (1.40%) Equities
13 97 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 94 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
15 93 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 93 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 81 (1.04%) AI Agents
17 80 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
18 71 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 270 (3.46%) Windows
2 247 (3.17%) Linux
3 128 (1.64%) Unix
4 63 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 43 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 30 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 23 (0.29%) zOS
11 18 (0.23%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.064%) VMS
16 4 (0.051%) HPUX
16 4 (0.051%) MVS
16 4 (0.051%) SUSE
17 3 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,627 (20.86%) Agile
2 1,611 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,100 (14.10%) Migration
4 1,020 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 876 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 848 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 838 (10.74%) DevOps
8 803 (10.29%) CI/CD
9 778 (9.97%) ERP
10 774 (9.92%) AI
11 757 (9.70%) Analytics
12 714 (9.15%) Project Management
13 668 (8.56%) Decision-Making
14 658 (8.43%) Data Modelling
15 641 (8.22%) Roadmaps
16 638 (8.18%) Validation
17 610 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
18 586 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
19 558 (7.15%) Change Management
20 508 (6.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,105 (14.16%) SQL
2 952 (12.20%) Python
3 526 (6.74%) Java
4 334 (4.28%) C#
5 216 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 204 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 167 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 89 (1.14%) C++
9 70 (0.90%) Bash
10 67 (0.86%) Go
10 67 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 60 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 52 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 50 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 43 (0.55%) Scala
15 38 (0.49%) VBA
16 27 (0.35%) Bicep
16 27 (0.35%) Rust
17 26 (0.33%) Apex Code
18 25 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 673 (8.63%) Degree
2 618 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 440 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 203 (2.60%) ACCA
5 199 (2.55%) PMP
6 183 (2.35%) CIMA
7 167 (2.14%) PMI Certification
8 140 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 127 (1.63%) CISSP
10 125 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 81 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 77 (0.99%) CISM
13 73 (0.94%) DV Cleared
14 68 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 56 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
16 41 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
17 38 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 35 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 31 (0.40%) DBS Check
20 30 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 352 (4.51%) QA
3 289 (3.70%) PMO
4 274 (3.51%) GDPR
5 153 (1.96%) NIST
6 130 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 108 (1.38%) IFRS
8 95 (1.22%) SLA
9 88 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 82 (1.05%) GRC
11 70 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.81%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.71%) GAAP
14 53 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 35 (0.45%) NCSC
16 34 (0.44%) PSD2
17 33 (0.42%) SEPA
18 28 (0.36%) IFRS 17
19 25 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
19 25 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 265 (3.40%) Docker
2 151 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.37%) vSphere
5 23 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.14%) NFS
10 7 (0.090%) GPFS
11 6 (0.077%) KVM
11 6 (0.077%) RACF
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.051%) SRDF
14 3 (0.038%) GridGain
14 3 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.026%) ACF2
15 2 (0.026%) HDFS
15 2 (0.026%) IAG
Systems Management
1 360 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 225 (2.88%) Terraform
3 116 (1.49%) Ansible
4 78 (1.00%) Grafana
5 65 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (0.54%) SCCM
8 32 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.24%) Control-M
10 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.23%) vRealize
11 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
12 13 (0.17%) Nessus
13 12 (0.15%) Puppet
14 11 (0.14%) Argo
14 11 (0.14%) CASB
15 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,013 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 642 (8.23%) Oracle
3 621 (7.96%) SAP
4 272 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 233 (2.99%) Databricks
6 182 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 173 (2.22%) Google
8 115 (1.47%) Workday
9 110 (1.41%) Splunk
10 106 (1.36%) VMware
11 97 (1.24%) Cisco
12 82 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 77 (0.99%) IBM
14 62 (0.79%) Citrix
15 56 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 52 (0.67%) Ariba
16 52 (0.67%) Sage
17 47 (0.60%) Bloomberg
17 47 (0.60%) IFS
17 47 (0.60%) Murex